Which console had the best homebrew scene?

[gnmmarechal]

Definitely PSP imo.

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In my opinion , Wii and 3DS has been the best so far n///n
I cannot comment on PS and Xbox as i've never hacked a PS console and i never had an Xbox console

The community around HENkaku is often friendlier, though.

 

[f5ve_icon]

Definitely PSP imo.

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The community around HENkaku is often friendlier, though.

I cannot confirm this but i can say , 3DS scene community are mean sometimes

 

[kapapt]

So, now we have more consoles but not ps3? Ps3 have the best homebrew scene in the last years! Cfw adds functionality that was removed by sony in all models like playing ps2 and psp games on a ps3 slim and the posibility of having linux and media center running on system too.

But anyway, for me, every homebrew scene is a good scene because it give to us all the posibility of exploring the hardware we buy

 

[slaphappygamer]

I was deep in the ps2. Spent so many hours with hdl dumb and configuring launchelf. I may have to redo it to boot freemcboot. When I figure that one out.

 

[VinsCool]

The PSP and Wii scenes are amazing.

PSP, the best homebrew handheld, had so much great things.

Wii, this one was the first console that got me into modding and homebrewing. So much fun back in the early days. Hopefully the WiiU will follow the same path, especially with the scene explosion from the last 2 weeks.

 

[Deleted User]

I would say back then in the the 7th generation of gaming,the psp was a amazing device to have hacked due to its countless emulators and support it had back in the day.Now in modern times here in mid 8th generation the 3ds is domanating the vita due to its better exclusive library along with ds flash cards like r4i gold and native gba games that can be injected into the sysnand.The 3ds also has countless methods and options of installing cfw and Any model 3ds can be downgraded once it has a supported ofw.The only advantages the vita has is it has the better ps1 support and it can play psp games (which is its best advantage since the psp had really good exclusives) but only when it's hacked,while the 3ds can just use backwards compatibility on ds games.Anoughter would be streaming your ps3 and ps4 games to the vita,however the vitas exclusives are crap while the 3ds has a above average good library.

 

[Deleted User]

Hmm I don't know. I've only lived through a few homebrew secens and the one I got the most joy out of it the DS. Comparing homebrew that DS to 3DS had is quite astonishing. The DS had way coller things and games on it. The 3DS just feels like a play around device but I can still get enjoyment from my DS 6 years from now.

 

[digr8one]

Wii and the first xbox.

 

[DeoNaught]

I would say the Psp or the wii I guess.

 

[Deleted User]

You would rate 3ds homebrew over all the DS had to offer? Is there a whole load of things I missed out there or something ( http://pdroms.de/news/nintendo-3ds/ seems fairly accurate and reasonably complete)? The DS had loads of nice ports and remakes, original games, utilities and more besides. The 3ds thus far seems to mainly be a few emulators eclipsed by loads of other contemporary devices (and for general polish the PSP and DS come out on top) and some basic, if nice to have, utilities.

This. Sorry for posting fairly late on this topic, but I just had to voice my opinion on this. While I find it nice that the devs have been able to crack the 3DS this far open, I'm noticing a shortage of actual homebrew; there haven't been that many games and apps for the system, compared to the Wii/DS/PSP.

You know what would be cool, but unlikely? A homebrew scene like that of the Dreamcast, where new games are still being released years after the console stopped being supported.

It seems to me that most of the homebrew community is oriented towards cracking the system, which is fine, but personally, I'd like to see more practical stuff come out of this. Emulators are fine, but what about some interesting original games? Some useful apps, like text editors? Some developments in ROM Hacking?

Maybe this is due to the fact that everyone and their mother nowadays has a phone, which is probably much more powerful and more capable of doing these things than a 3DS can, and maybe I wouldn't want a better homebrew scene if I actually had a phone, but I'd like to see more cool stuff come out of the 3DS Homebrew Scene. I just hope that it doesn't die out before I get the chance to contribute something.

 

[FAST6191]

IOS rose up towards the end of the DS scene. Between actual comments to such an end and the large amount of DS homebrew which ended up as top apps on IOS it was pretty clear that IOS had gutted it. Without it things would probably not have continued on massively but IOS sent something that might have lingered on in a home for a few more years to the glue factory.

ROM hacking on the 3ds seems to be doing well enough -- plenty of people seem to be doing 3d model manipulation and even video has sort of fallen unlike the DS which could have and still could do with something like what the 3ds had very early on.

Likewise a homebrew scene will never die out for a device like we tend to see, I imagine it could for something which requires active connections and the like but that is not something to really consider here. At any point you can make a new piece of homebrew, polish up something if you want or otherwise. Poke around http://www.pouet.net/ for nice demos and things like the dreamcast, NES and more besides enjoy new games to this day. Even with the extra power then pending the rise of a given controller type for phones or a common phone with controls (personally I await some of the things with screens changing shape to kind of having physical buttons) the 3ds will still represent something interesting. That said the GBA and DS did genuinely represent power enough to do something and the best option for it, there is a reason things like http://reinerziegler.de/GBA/gba.htm#great GBA hardware were made for it and it was not just "because it was cool". Phones today have options to allow for ODBII (car diagnostics tools), portable oscilloscopes, endoscope/boroscope/snake cameras ( http://www.banggood.com/6-LED-7mm-L...amera-for-Android-Phone-and-PC-p-1001666.html ), thermal cameras and more for far lower than I would have paid in years past for dedicated tools with less functionality, and in some cases still would.